Category: Multidisciplinary
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Ala Younis is an artist, trained as an architect in Amman. Research forms a big part of her practice, as do curating, collaboration, film and book projects. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including solo shows at Darat al Funun (2009) and Delfina Foundation (2010 and 2018), MMAG Foundation in Amman (2017), Centro…
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Farah Salem is a Kuwaiti-Iraqi Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and art therapist. Her studio and art therapy practices are bridged by socially engaged artistic and therapeutic practices. In her studio practice, she finds subtle affinities between geologic time, somatic movement, the human psyche, gendered trauma, ceremonial music/dance and healing rituals from the Arabian Peninsula. Through relational…
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Maha Alasaker is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans across various mediums, including photography, performance, textiles, and natural dyes. Her artistic explorations are driven by her curiosity about anthropology and culture, as well as her interest in the connection between land and human beliefs. As a woman who grew up in the Middle East, Maha’s…
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Lara Atallah is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice explores the political dimensions of landscape, probing both the futility and fluidity of borders as man-made constructs. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally and is part of the NYU Langone Collection and the Met Museum, among others. Her writing has appeared…
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Manar Ali Hassan is a multidisciplinary artist and curator who blurs artistic boundaries by merging diverse mediums such as painting, sculpture, digital art, and immersive installations. With a Master of Visual Arts from ALBA, she explores social and philosophical related themes and their intersection with art and technology. As a curator, she bridges contemporary and…
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Graduated from Saint Joseph University in Beirut in 2012, Melissa Chalhoub has directed and sound designed many experimental short films, and has been working as a visual artist and illustrator, translating what she learned from movie making onto paper. Melissa Chalhoub took part in many art fairs around the world, from Egypt, Amsterdam, Barcelona to…
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Khadija El Abyad is multidisciplinary visual artist, born in 1991 in Agadir. She is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux Arts, (Tétouan 2017) and holder of a Master’s degree in Cultural and Artistic Engineering at FLSH Ben M’Sik (Casablanca 2019). Her plastic practice is essentially built around BODY SCREENS in various dimensions: the…
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Oumayma Abouzid Souali is a young Moroccan artist, born in 1997 in Rabat. She is currently based between Tetouan and Casablanca. She obtained her Art Diploma in 2021 at the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan (INBA). She has experimented with different mediums, including performance, drawing, printmaking, installation, video art, photography and singing. She…
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Hela Lamine, born in 1984, is a Tunisian multidisciplinary artist and a teacher at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse. She lives and works in Tunis. Since 2010, she has been developing a hybrid practice that centers around the human being and what they consume: food, social networks, politics, culture, tradition, identity, and…
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b. 1985, Dubai, UAELives and works in Dubai. Latifa is a Dubai-based multidisciplinary artist who graduated from Zayed University with a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Sciences in 2007. She obtained the Emerging Artist Fellowship by the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation in partnership with Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 in the…
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Nagham Hodaifa’s work explores the human condition through the representation of the body and/or by its disappearance. She includes questions such as intimacy/desire, inner/physical, nature/pollution, threshold/ending, birth/death and the notion of what we leave behind to nature. As a painter, she creates using various materials and different techniques. Her painting materializes on different scales: on…
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Ranging from painting and sculpture to performance and multimedia installation, the artistic practice of Dana Awartani (Saudi Arabia/Palestine) imbues forms, techniques, concepts, and spatial constructs that define Arab culture with contemporary awareness. Her work spans a variety of materials and techniques and often revolves around reinterpreting geometric patterns as a highly codified and philosophical mode…
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Afraa Ahmed (b.1992, Yemen), currently based in Cairo, is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes installation, sculpture, photography and video. She holds a degree in Multimedia Technology from Asia Pacific University in Malaysia. There she began to explore the ways familiarity and ‘safety’ of home stay within us even after being disconnected. Her work has…
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Magda Saad El Din, was born on July 26, 1952, in Monufia, Egypt. Her childhood and adolescence were spent in a grand house overlooking the Shibin El Kom River, a significant tributary of the majestic Nile. Magda embarked on her artistic journey by enrolling in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria in 1970, culminating…